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The Tree of Life – why organ donation matters
News & events | 30 Jun 2016 | Tags: #kidneydonation #organdonation #transplants #TreeofLife
The Tree of Life celebration is held annually at St George’s and honours people who have died over the years and donated their organs so that others might live. All staff and people associated with the donor are invited to attend the ceremony which will be held from 11:00 until …
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Lonely Hearts: 24 Hours in A&E continues…
News & events | 27 Jun 2016
68-year-old Beth is rushed to A&E after falling down a flight of stairs and breaking her ankle – her foot is hanging off and the bone is sticking out. Beth, who’s originally from Canada, lives on her own after her husband died recently. “I remember losing my balance. I just …
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Improving neonatal care with technology
News & events | 21 Jun 2016
Technology is vastly improving patient care through making monitoring and record keeping easy and fool-proof. No more missing patient notes. Neonatal care requires very close monitoring by clinicians as babies can improve and deteriorate rapidly. Click here to find out more about the Cerner system which we are using at …
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Project Search is gearing up again!
News & events | 20 Jun 2016
Project SEARCH has been at St George’s since 2012. It’s a supported internship programme for people with learning disabilities (aged 18-24) and takes place between September and July. During their time at St George’s, the trainees learn about work and develop their employability skills by carrying out unpaid work experience …
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St George’s co-hosts fetal medicine event at Royal Society of Medicine
News & events | 20 Jun 2016
On Wednesday 14 June, our fetal medicine and clinical genetics teams co-hosted an educational seminar at premises of the Royal Society of Medicine with Premaitha, makers of the SAFE (St George’s Antenatal Fetal Evaluation) blood test. The test was first offered from June 2015 at the trust.
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Education, education, education!
News & events | 20 Jun 2016
St George’s surgical teaching faculty were nationally recognised by the College of Surgeons of England as the regional team delivering the most Royal College surgical teaching courses in 2015. This award is the result of a great team effort by many consultants and trainee surgeons from different specialties working with …
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Dangerous Pursuits
News & events | 20 Jun 2016
Sometimes doing the things you love gets you into hot water – but you do them anyway because life is made all the better for doing them.
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Here we go again
News & events | 13 Jun 2016
Sometimes, unpleasant things just keep happening time and time again for no reason. All you can do is bear with it and the people featured in this episode have certainly had their fair share of the past repeating itself. 39-year-old Stephan is rushed to St George’s with internal bleeding from …
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Keep on going
News & events | 6 Jun 2016 | Tags: #24HrsAE 24 24 Hours 24 Hours A&E 24 hours in A&E 24 Hrs A&E 24 hrs in A&E
All the people in this episode are real goers. They get 10 out of 10 for trying. 31-year-old Liam is rushed to St George’s after collapsing at home during an epileptic seizure. It was his fourth seizure of the day and he experiences another at the hospital. He’s given an …
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Only Yesterday
News & events | 30 May 2016 | Tags: #24HrsAE 24 24 Hours 24 Hours A&E 24 hours in A&E 24 Hrs A&E 24 hrs in A&E
Animals and lots of blood feature large in this episode. It’s dramatic and tear-jerking. Riveting stuff. Janine talks about her life-long affection for animals. “I have Asperger’s. I find people, social situations very difficult. People are really complicated. Animals, they’re so much easier,” she says. “I’ve been called ‘Little Miss …
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